[arm-allstar] WARNING: Exclamation Explanation - Don't use it

[Don Backstrom AA7AU]

	While stumbling around setting up another node today, I fell into an 
apparently known, but undocumented, HamVoip/AllStar/Linux/PHP *trap*. My 
first clue was that Supermon just refused to work properly.

	I had made the creative mistake of using an "!" embedded in my 
password. Gee, it sounded like such a good idea.

	Apparently this can cause massive thrombosis in the node innards by 
triggering all sorts of parsing errors, which can be found if you 
finally look in the logs otherwise available thru Supermon (ooops ...).

	If you didn't know this, I'll save you an hour or two of misery (until 
the documentation gets updated): Be forewarned - Don't use an 
exclamation point (!) is any variable definitions especially passwords - 
it totally confuses the parsing of the config files it seems.

	My thanks to those two folks who pointed this out earlier this year in 
the emailing list (I eventually found them in the archives). That new 
search function is a very nice tool.

	Don't you just love mysteries with hidden solutions when you're simply 
trying to make something work?

	Don't use !

	Cheers,

	- Don - AA7AU